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Saturday Long Run

Piece of cake run…this felt nice and easy. 160 bpm avg. with a kick towards the end (~6:30 min/mi effort)

But then again, it was so cool out…it’s now 50 min after my run and it’s 57F, so probably low 50’s

The hills that I used to really be mindful about in my Reunion neighborhood no longer affect me…I mean they’re still harder, but it seems my cadence and pace stay relatively constant with just a bit of additional effort.

Play a game called “Don’t Suck at Pacing”… tried to keep every split even or negative…only lost one round (7th split) in 10 rounds and only by 1 second. Used my “speed” page on my Garmin that shows my ‘Current Lap Pace’… and would typically switch to this page with 1/4 mile left on the split…which allowed me to tune my pace…worked relatively well. I did try to keep all my splits even.

These upper 7 paces are starting to really feel good. My stride feels really good, and I don’t even feel like I’m pushing off any more than I used to…I feel like my legs are stronger with simply more forward velocity per push…feels nice.

2 thoughts on “Saturday Long Run”

yes, yes and yes.
to be perfectly clear, ive been so worried about my marathon leading up to this week. last week, i started picking up a little bit of steam but i wasn’t sure if i still ‘had it in me’ to pull off these kind of weeks… and to top it all, running the CC trails have been very hard at previous times… where 8:45’s were some huge accomplishment for me. to be honest, 8 min/mi paces have really scared the crap out of me. and in fact, last Saturday, when I ran 6 mi at 7:55… i was so ecstatic… it was the first time i went some distance at a sub-8 pace. i can say that Saturday run really helped me get back on my feet.

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